Outside the Beltway

But, still very bad.

We spend so much time fighting over who should be in power that we don’t get anything important done.

They know Trump lost the election yet are aiding his outrageous assault on democracy.

Trumps words, Michigan GOP Canvassers’ actions.

The GOP is behaving exceedingly irresponsibly. Senator Graham and Representative Collins are prime examples.

Gracious concessions are the norm except when they’re not.

Explaining the continuing cowardice of GOP Senators.

Competing priorities.

It is one failure after another.

The utter smallness of Trump’s legal challenges to the election.

More sowing of doubt about electoral integrity without evidence.

Guess what they found?

The President’s claims have no merit.

The President’s message is getting through.

Revisiting predictions about what would happen if what has happened happened.

Sowing doubt in the absence of evidence is corrosive.

While many are congratulating President-Elect Biden, too many are still following a loser.

How the EC affects our thinking.

Looking back on the last three decades of presidential elections. (Part 1: the popular vote).

The press’ abandonment of Bothsiderism is decades overdue.

The requirements for voting in the Peach State appear loose.

The lies aren’t working anymore.

We’ve just had an election, not psychoanalysis.

Her Democratic opponent has conceded.

10 more Electoral votes.

It’ll be days before we know the final 2020 results but a resounding repudiation is unlikely.

Some thoughts on voter enthusiasm and EV scenarios.

When early voting meets tragedy.

The ongoing pathetic attempt to create a scandal around Hunter Biden.

Will he be a uniter or a divider?

Fear of a reprise of 2016 is still with us.

A defensible distinction could give way to a Constitutional crisis.

Two prominent media pollsters are hedging their bets.

Up is down. Down is up.

The stakes of losing will be catastrophic. Either way.

Chuck Schumer and company sent a signal to their base against a fait accompli.

Let’s just say Rasmussen is an extreme outlier.

The Lone Star state is making up its own rules.

Election Day is increasingly a myth.

Some judicial alphabet soup in dialog with my co-blogger.

After weeks of evasion, the frontrunner hints at a compromise policy.

He has the largest lead of any challenger since modern polling began in 1936.

What meanings might the Founders have had? How should we understand the term?

If we embrace the Founders to justify the present, let’s think about what we are doing.

Having the topic of political reform start to seep into pop culture is a good thing.

A look at several models.

A national nightmare that may not have changed many minds.

Definitions are fun, right?